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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Strange /etc/passwd output Post 302562804 by cokedude on Saturday 8th of October 2011 10:32:38 AM
Old 10-08-2011
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Originally Posted by Corona688
The first field is the username. The fifth field amounts to a title, and isn't really used that much. Some UNIX systems occasionally use it for special purposes.

The username is supposed to be all lowercase letters, digits, or underscores, no spaces or anything else, so a more descriptive name to attach to a user can be useful sometimes.
On my Fedora system it allowed me to use uppercase letters. Is that a problem? My professor said that was a bad so I deleted that user and changed it to lowercase.
 

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tcp-environ(5)							File Formats Manual						    tcp-environ(5)

NAME
tcp-environ - TCP-related environment variables DESCRIPTION
The following environment variables describe a TCP connection. They are set up by tcp-env, tcpclient, and tcpserver. Note that TCPLOCAL- HOST, TCPREMOTEHOST, and TCPREMOTEINFO can contain arbitrary characters. PROTO The string TCP. TCPLOCALHOST The domain name of the local host, with uppercase letters converted to lowercase. If there is no currently available domain name for the local IP address, TCPLOCALHOST is not set. TCPLOCALIP The IP address of the local host, in dotted-decimal form. TCPLOCALPORT The local TCP port number, in decimal. TCPREMOTEHOST The domain name of the remote host, with uppercase letters converted to lowercase. If there is no currently available domain name for the remote IP address, TCPREMOTEHOST is not set. TCPREMOTEINFO A connection-specific string, perhaps a username, supplied by the remote host via 931/1413/IDENT/TAP. If the remote host did not sup- ply connection information, TCPREMOTEINFO is not set. TCPREMOTEIP The IP address of the remote host. TCPREMOTEPORT The remote TCP port number. SEE ALSO
tcpclient(1), tcpserver(1), tcp-env(1), tcp(4) tcp-environ(5)
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